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Proposals to build a student housing development adjoining the world-renowned Glasgow School of Art (GSA) campus have been recommended for approval by planning officials after the project was reduced by one floor. Plans by developers Urban Pulse include the demolition of the former Jumpin’ Jaks ni

Contractors are being invited to come forward with bids to build a new national women’s prison in Stirling. The new prison, catering for just 80 of the most serious offenders, is to be built to replace Scotland’s only female jail at Cornton Vale.

A former Dundee primary school is to be demolished and replaced with almost 50 new homes under new plans submitted to the local authority. Developer Kirkwood Homes wants to build 49 two-bedroom flats on Bellfield Street, where the now-closed St Joseph’s RC Primary School building still stands.

Troon Links Clubhouse reopens after £1.9m revamp South Ayrshire Council has just reopened Troon Links Clubhouse following the complete renovation of the historic building.

Ukrainian patisserie chef Dinara Kasko is drawing on her background in architecture when cooking complex, geometric desserts. Kasko's desserts have architectural characteristics, which she achieves by using silicone moulds modelled with Autodesk's 3ds Max software. Combining this technique with prec

Fresh proposals have been unveiled for a housing-led regeneration of Glasgow’s Graving Docks. ZM Architecture and New City Vision hope to bring the site back into use after 40 years of dereliction with the creation of 750 homes in a series of buildings ranging from four to 15 storeys in height.

Up to 27,000 young people will benefit from apprenticeship employment opportunities this year thanks to business and industry, the Scottish Government has said. The new figure, which was announced ahead of Scottish Apprenticeship Week 2017, is up on last year’s target of 26,000 apprenticeship star

Work starts on next phase of Scotland’s largest planned new town Scotland’s largest planned new town, Chapelton, is a step closer to offering a range of new properties and community facilities following the commencement of a mass excavation of rock.

A sheriff has ruled a man living in a tree-house, preventing work starting on the building of a £65 million hotel in Edinburgh's Grassmarket, should be evicted from the site. The BBC has reported that developers Dreamvale Properties Ltd brought the action against Simon Byrom at Edinburgh Sheriff Co

Construction materials supplier Breedon Group has reported another record set of results following its “transformational” year of acquisition and expansion. The aggregates-to-concrete group saw strong trading across all areas last year – with improved sales and profits in existing businesses b

Young people are getting an insight into what it’s like to get a career in construction thanks to a new app. Virtual Project Manager takes young people inside an animated 3D world where they are in charge of building new homes.

Construction firm Structural Metal Decks Limited (SMDL) has been fined after a worker was left paralysed following an accident at a building site in Kilsyth. The worker suffered injuries to his spinal cord and is now paralysed from the neck down following the incident.

Councillors have voted to continue an application to build new student flats next to the Glasgow School of Art (GSA) until a hearing has been carried out Plans by developers Urban Pulse would have seen the former Jumpin’ Jaks nightclub on Sauchiehall Street demolished to make way for a seven-store

The £16.8 million project to revamp the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh has been hit by a delay due to complications with the planned construction programme. The National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) said the delay of the planned extension to its headquarters into East Princes Street Gardens,

Northern Ireland construction firm FP McCann is in advanced negotiations with Laing O’Rourke to buy its precast concrete manufacturing plant in Uddingston. It is understood that around 50 staff and assets at the site will be transferred across to FP McCann, and no jobs will be lost.